Author William Breathes

Dennis Delasbour isn’t a good smuggler.

When passing marijuana off to an inmate in custody in a courtroom, one should of course be keenly aware of things like video cameras in said courtroom. But one should also be sure that the intended recipient is not a bumbling moron who will quickly get busted with the contraband.
Apparently Dennis Delasbour didn’t get either of things right, though we do commend him for looking out for a bro in need of a buzz despite the stupidity and riskiness of his actions.

Wikimedia commons/Pearson Scott Foresman.

California Democrats agreed over the weekend to kindly ask the president to lay off medical marijuana and recreational marijuana in states that allow it: namely California, Washington and Colorado.
The resolution, adopted by the California Democratic Party Executive Board, also praises Colorado and Washington for laws passed November.

Don Knight doesn’t want no whacky tobaccy in his city.

Colorado Springs, Colorado is one of the state’s largest medical marijuana markets. And El Paso County, where it’s located, voted in favor of Amendment 64 which legalized personal use and cultivation of small amounts of cannabis, albeit by just ten votes.
Nevertheless, the Springs city council is likely to issue a de facto ban on recreational pot sales later today, with the deciding vote against allowing them likely to be cast by councilmember Don Knight. Denver Westword has the rest on Knight and his rationale — and a bizarre animated video in which he features.

Mmm, science.

Fletcher, North Carolina resident Todd Stimson was arrested earlier this month for growing and selling marijuana. The only thing is, Stimson says he’s done nothing illegal. He’s licensed by the state and has even been paying taxes on his plants since his operation began in 2011 despite North Carolina not having medical marijuana laws.

Kentucky state Sen. Perry Clark, a Democrat from Louisville, announced late last week that he will again be pushing medical marijuana legislation in his state. He made his plans public last Thursday at a party for supporters at his house.
Clark’s two previous attempts in 2012 and 2013 failed to even get a hearing. Clark says that isn’t going to be the case this session as legislators are poised to debate his bill August 21 in a Health and Welfare joint committee (no pun intended).

The hydroponic marijuana-growing community has suspected for a while that they’re being watched, and for good reason. By the DEA’s own account, law enforcement has turned its attention increasingly toward indoor growing operations as a quarter century of an aggressive eradication campaign has forced an increasing number of pot farmers to seek shelter.
The feds’ tactics vary, but their focus falls not infrequently on hydroponic gardening supply stores. Four years ago, a newspaper in Florida discovered that local police were tracking customers of Simply Hydroponics to their homes then, if they detected unusually high power usage or the smell of weed, obtaining a search warrant and conducting raids. And sometimes, they target the gardening suppliers themselves. Dallas Observer has the rest.

Some ganja farmers in Florida are learning what happens when you tell too many people about your cultivation operation today as police continue to clean up a grow house in a Miami suburb.
At least, we assume it was loose-lips because it wasn’t someone ratting out the grower that caused this. It was burglars trying to rob the grow that caused neighbors to call the police and set the whole thing in motion.

Kids meal toy prizes from fast food restaurants sure have gotten cooler since I was a Happy Meal-eating child.
Police in Dundee, Michigan earlier this week arrested a 23-year-old Burger King employee after a family found a packed ganja pipe in their grandson’s kid’s meal. The family from Detroit immediately called the police instead of pulling back through the drive through and demanding they fix their mistake like everyone else does when a restaurant fucks up their take out order.

Cleanup at an illegal grow in Shasta Trinity National Forest.

A California congressman representing the northern, pot-growing part of the state has introduced legislation further penalizing outdoor growers who plant their crops illegally on private and public land.
Rep. Jared Huffman yesterday introduced the Protecting Lands Against Narcotics Trafficking Act, also known as the PLANT Act as a way of battling illegal marijuana cultivation in his district.

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